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Care management for older people with serious mental health problems
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Care Programme Approach (CPA) should be applied to older people with severe mental illness due to schizophrenia or other psychoses. The assessment of their needs should be based on the Single Assessment Process (SAP) for older people. SAP, plus critical aspects of CPA, should be applied to other older people with severe functional or organic mental health problems, who were they younger would be provided for under CPA. When individuals subject to CPA reach old age, switches to SAP are not inevitable.
Long-term care for elderly people: purchasing, providing and quality
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 82p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a conference organised by the British Geriatrics Society and the Faculty of Public Health Medicine. Contains contributions from both professional and academic commentators. Papers include: the future of long term care; purchasing long-term health care for elderly people; purchasing social care; consumers' perception of need; home-based case management ... models of long-term care of elderly people with dementia and behavioural problems; the role of the general practitioner; quality assurance; and audit of quality of long-term residential care of elderly people.
Care homes for older people and younger adults: consultation document
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Consultation document on care homes concerning the establishment of national standards of care for homes for older people and adults (18-65 years).